It is not the cap...it is the attitude. I firmly believe that good healthcare has a personal touch. Why else are so many people seeking stuff like homeopathy, which provenly has no health effect? Because it is administered by people who listen and care. If we would combine effective treatment with a human attitude, healthcare would be transformed. I even believe it would save money in the long run.

Makes sense to me, everyone is wearing mask during surgery, how are they gonna tell each other apart is my guess.

After several surgeries, I'm grateful this is catching on. No one looks tge same suited up, so it's very helpful. It's also

These are awesome! Never mind the humanizing (although that's definitely great too), just the fact that you know who you're talking to and don't have to hunt for a tiny unreadable badge is awesome. More-so for people who are bedridden, vision impaired, etc.

At our level one trauma center hospital, the trauma unit has stickers and the physicians and such stick them on their scrubs to identify what role they play. It's such a fiasco sometimes that it's easy to lose track of who is whom, especially when there are so many doctors, residents, nurses, techs, etc all scrambling to do their thing.

Nursing homes/rehab should do this too. Many times their badges are turned backwards. It is the nature of them to do this because staff move around a lot. It is easier to see the cape than the badges

I think this is wonderful. I'm a retired nurse, and I recognise the importance of knowing who's who when we all look the same. It also takes some of the formality out of introductions. Why would anyone not join in!

Come on UK let’s get this done. I struggle a lot with knowing who’s who, when I. Hospital, so this would be great. Even children will benefit. 😂👌🏻

I love this idea, plus it shows a more human and friendlier side of the healthcare profession. I am going to look into getting one my son who is a nurse in the OR.

GREAT idea!

If I could give more upvotes I would... had a surgeon with Mickey Mouse ears on his scrubs hat, and anisthesiast with googly eyes on their scrub hat... made me feel very at ease and relaxed for my surgery.... being an adult I can only imagine how comforting for a child having surgery this would have been. Well done 👍❤👍

Yes, excellent idea… But whit all these Anesthetists I felt asleep…

Brilliant

Also to butt in on the "its the personal attitude-part, not the cap" ; Since I was little I´ve been incredibly hard for nurses and doctors to put IV or needles in. I have deep,rolling and hard veins and I have been known to both faint and to have to leave and come back in 2 weeks because they´ve poked the vein to smitherens. 6-ish years ago I was diagnosed with MS and for the last 5 years I´ve had 60+ treatments in IV-form. I´ve never fainted at MSward (but at urgent care and housedoctor during this time) and they always get blood and a good line there. I like to think of it like urgent care or housedoctor is like fastfood. They want you to sit down,give your orderform on what tests are needed and then it´s needle,blood,bandaid and off you go next patient! Where as MSward is a treatmentward. They know me by name,there is smalltalk and I feel safe because I trust them and I know that I am under X´s care. A world of difference! That personal touch!

Back in 2011 I underwent skullsurgery and I spent like 10-15 minutes scared and stressed from the time they rolled me in until the finally put me under. There was so many many people there trying to get blood, needles in hand and foot, get the preassurestockings on, all the monitorthings on me etcetra. They all said their names but I just saw this wave of people dressed in green scrubs and since I´m autistic and highlysensitive when I get stressed sounds kinda get distorted and more like crashing waves than words. Being able to read what they were in charge of would´ve calmed me and made it seem less chaotic. A small thing but I think it would´ve helped me. Surgery is stressful and scary enough as it is!

Why not have different positions/classes wear different color scrubs? E.g.: Nurses in soft blue; Scrub Nurses in dark blue; Surgeons in Red; Midwife in yellow; Anesthetists in green; etc. That would clarify a position even more strongly, especially if teamed with caps with names on them.

"Cognitive dissonance [is one of the challenges] that #TheatreCapChallenge has faced,” Dr. Hackett explained. “It’s most likely to affect those who feel defined by their decisions often those further up the chain of command – in accepting change they’ll need to accept that what was happening previously, on their watch as it were, was not as good.” Within healthcare, this may mean we have to accept we’ve been hurting people, even killing people for years – often this can be too hard to bear.” WHAAAT!? We can't change because then people will get upset that others will think that things were bad before. That is the lamest, worst possible excuse to resist change that I have ever heard. If people really worked like this, we'd still be waving rattling sticks over sick people and asking the spirits for help. FFS.

Very good idea :)

Also, color code those caps according to profession/speciality and you have the perfect team set-up. Especially importans in emergency surgery.

Fabulous idea! But SOME names should be followed with the "pruh-nuhn-see-EY-shuhn." spelling lol.....The English language is notorious for the irregularity of its pronunciation.

Will this work for a Radiologist ? My wife is the single doctor in a big scan room with 1 patient at a time...

I love it but keep the jargon- "ODP" and "Dr" and "Pediatric Nurse opthamologist" of the caps... Name and job only

I knew exactly what it was for before reading anything. I've woken from anesthesia twice & tried to escape because I was so afraid & didn't know where I was or why. I hurt myself the 1st time because my body wasn't as awake as my mind.

Roger . . . . . Philosopher. A lot of what the medical profession does is harmful. If you have a traumatic acute condition like a broken arm, see the doctor. If you want to build health and prevent disease, avoid the doctors.

No Millie its not made up. She said I had hydradenitis which would require lifelong treatment. Google it and educate yourself. Dx was wrong

don't forget to fit the patient with one, too!

Dont they have badges that say this? lol

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I'm sorry, but if I woke up in surgery and saw Gavin Sullivan's face (like THAT), I'd freak the F out.

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Treating patients like on-the-spectrum minks is no way to behave. Also all anesthetists have a glimmer of child rapists is their heart and soul. Please don't get mad at me it's just science. Also science makes people less creative.